few places were hit harder than new york city's breezy point, and few neighborhoods have people more determined to rebuild. tony guida has a case in point. >> reporter: tracy rutter arrived for her wedding in breezy points, queen, in a fire truck, fitting for a veteran e.m.t. marrying a longtime firefighter. >> come hell or high water, this day is going to happen. >> reporter: hell and high water came. super storm sandy roared through breezy point queens, nearly two months ago. 111 homes burned to the ground. many of the other 28 hundred houses were destroyed by floodwaters, include the home tracy rutter shared with her fiance, rutter whalen. >> the first couple weeks we were going through two feet of water only to get down the main road. >> they planned to start a home here raise their daughter here. >> i think everybody needs a little bit of hope to see that we're going to pull through this and we're going to do it one day at a time and we're going to rebuild. >> reporter: st. thomas more church is still struggling from sandy. it has no heat. the rutter-whelen wedding was the first